(PM.) Twitter CEO Elon Musk said on Wednesday that his website’s new policy is to “follow the science,” though not in the way that corporate media has done over the past two years.
“New Twitter policy is to follow the science, which necessarily includes reasoned questioning of the science,” a tweet from the Space X and Tesla CEO said.
New Twitter policy is to follow the science, which necessarily includes reasoned questioning of the science
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 28, 2022
A sarcastic tweet from evolutionary psychologist and author Gad Saad replied, “the science is anything that His Eminence Lord Fauci says it is. His Excellency is science,” referring to Dr. Anthony Fauci, to which Musk said, “Anyone who says that questioning them is questioning science itself cannot be regarded as a scientist.”
Musk is referring to comments made by Fauci where he claimed to symbolize “truth and integrity” across society, in something he called “the Fauci effect.”
Anyone who says that questioning them is questioning science itself cannot be regarded as a scientist
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 28, 2022
“People go to medical school now, people are interested in science, not because of me, because people most people don’t know me who I am. My friends know me. My wife knows me. But people don’t know me. It’s what I symbolize,” said Fauci. “And what I symbolize, in an era of the normalization of untruths, and lies, and all the things you’re seeing going on in society from January 6 to everything else that goes on, people are craving for consistency for integrity, for truth and for people caring about people,” he added.
